"Swingman" wrote in message
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"Vic Baron" wrote

now I'm irritated again.

Simple solution for that ... hit the "next" button.

The full line was:
Haven't watched the NYWS in a while and had some free time and tuned in -
now I'm irritated again.

I HAVE been using the next button, just not the last time!



For me, as one whose interest in furniture design has developed and
advanced beyond simply copying a plan, it is the _project_ itself,
followed by Norm's take on the joinery/method of construction of each,
that has become the focus of my interest in his shows ... not the tools he
chooses for each step.

Actually, I agree, I would just like to see him do it the "old" way. As far
as the broadcast is concerned it takes no more time than using the dedicated
whatever.

I would venture a guess that IF you own a dedicated molder then you pretty
well know how to use it. If Ihad to make that multiple curved foot he made
on the show I watched, I would have to use either the bandsaw or multiple
passes with a router. I would have preferred his technique on doing that
rather than running a chunk through a molder and voila! a curved foot.

I think that he can scare away as many new woodworkers as he attracts - at
least with this type of show.


Just MHO








IOW, the more complicated the projects that I've designed and built
_without benefit of plans_, the more I have begun to appreciate Norm's
take on the methodology of constructing the project, whether it reaffirms,
or differs from, what I have already figured out on my own as the best way
to do something.

Then there was Bruce Johnson ... proving there are some you just can't
learn a damn thing from ... unless it's how not to.

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